Several composers adopted the style 'musica more antique mensurata' and the genre of metric ode, which initiation is usually ascribed to Konrad Celtes; both those musicians whose significance was merely local and prominent composers such as Hofhaimer, Senfl, Judenkunig. Polyphonic metric odes were composed throughout the 16th century in Central Europe - Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, as well as in Poland. In the latter repertory several groups could be distinguished according to the category of importation and participation.
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